Nuclear-Warhead Upgrade Delayed; Government Labs Forgot How to Make Parts
Nuclear Warhead Article
March 9, 2009 3:05 PM
Nuclear Warhead Article
March 9, 2009 3:05 PM
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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Don't worry this is part of the big plan. We'll lose the ability to do anything nuclear and the world will be at peace. We'll be the first to disarm wether we like it or not and our friends around the world will voluntarily disarm simply because we lead the way. What do you think of that plan? Don't worry though, Obama will talk to them and they'll lay down their arms as he request. Realistically I hope I'm at ground zero when this all goes down.
March 9, 2009 7:56 PM
Not at all suprised that Mike had a hand in this too. Hope those involved get to visit stand in the unemployment line alongside those they layed off.
Are you telling me that the folks that designed Fogbank:
1. Didn't document the methodology?
2. Did document it but lost the documentation?
And we're going to blame LANS for either of those scenarios?
Or is it the case that the documentation was done and can only be read by the folks you say were forced out?
I am not saying that people were not force out but if the statements I read in the press are correct that documentation was lost or destroyed or never existed, I don't think you can blame THAT on a RIF.
Often the documentation sucked, was wrong due to being out of date, or never existed in the first place.
Notebooks get destroyed when people leave, often without realising that something vital is in one. It happens a lot more often when people depart suddenly.
Then there are things that one never thought about documenting, since they were "obvious" to you. Only they aren't so obvious to others.
Managers should be ensuring that projects are properly documented, but all too often they care more about deadlines than proper procedure. So these things happen and will most likely happen more often as things get worse for the labs.
Why does it cost so much to save a stupid engineering drawing ?
(Duhhh, microfilm, , Q/A, storage in vault, fire suppression system,
long term archival, security, etc). Why can’t we just plot the drawing on our
plotter and save it in one of James file cabinet … Man, I know
how to "cut cost" !!!!!
Few years later …
ULM: Where’s James file cabinet that contain the old drawings??
Staff: Oh, we got rid of all his ‘worthless’ stuff back when he was ISPed in 08.